Fire Taxes Totaling $2.8M Up for Vote in Parsippany
Annual election will be held on Saturday.
Annual fire elections are Saturday, when Parsippany residents can vote on their respective district's proposed 2013 budget and elect members to the district's Board of Fire Commissioners. Each of Parsippany's six fire districts—Mount Tabor, Rainbow Lakes, Lake Parsippany, Lake Hiawatha, Rockaway Neck and Parsippany-Troy Hills—has its own five-member board that creates budgets and collects property taxes to maintain and support the town's volunteer fire departments. The proposed tax levies this year total $2,819,582. If a budget is voted down, it is sent to the township governing body for review. This year, some Parsippany districts also have special questions seeking approval to purchase a generator and set aside money to buy new fire …
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Nicholas Robert Homyak
9:49 am on Saturday, February 16, 2013
Any election with low voter turn out should not be counted or seen as a democratic process. It shows lack of information being circulated as to informing the populace If for example we know the number of registered voters or better yet potential voters and then see that a tiny minority only votes the referendum itself should be invalid. In a real democracy it should be mandatory that all citizens… more ›